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Indian locomotive class PT
🇮🇳 India ·built by Kitson and Company· from 1936· Indian steam locomotive class
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. South Indian Railways 2-6-4T steam locomotive Nr. PT 10 (Robert Stephenson Locomotive Works Nr. 4117 built 1936): Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns· Public domain
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class PT (Passenger Tank) were a class of 2-6-4T broad gauge passenger tank locomotives that were one of seven standard broad-gauge locomotive designs developed by the British Engineering Standards Committee (BESC, later the British Engineering Standards Association (BESA)) for the broad-gauge railways of British India.
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 90 years ago, in 1936.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1936
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 7
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- Kitson and Company, Robert Stephenson and Company
- designer
- British Engineering Standards Association
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-4
- weight
- 76.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q98804474, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class PT (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.